Food

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903)

Shaw continued to write into his nineties and he died at the age of ninety-four of renal failure precipitated by injuries incurred when falling while pruning a tree. If he loved the food, he loved it in the right way.
Actually there are few probability to reach that age considering no basic knowledge about food. A short explanation how our body produces energy can be seen Here

Here a brief explanation of some way of giving heat to the food in order to obtain some chemical reactions and increasing temperature, vulgarly “Cooking”:Baking: Cook by dry heat without direct exposure to a flame, typically in an oven.Frying: Cook in hot fat or oil, typically in a shallow pan.Stir-frying: Fry (meat, fish, or vegetables) rapidly over a high heat while stirring briskly.Stewing: Cook slowly in liquid in a closed dish or pan.Braising: Fry lightly and then stew it slowly in a closed container.

In the beginning i followed receipts, but actually i can cook a lot of things without them: practice makes perfect, as in all things in life.
Take a look also to wine section
Here some dish from western and eastern cuisine:

The orecchiette with meat sauce and Primitivo wine are a tipical dish of south of Italy.
My brother stayed there for holidays in summer of ’18 and took back some local food.Primitivo is cultivated in all the south of Italy, particularly Puglia. Arrived probably on the other side of the Adriatic by the Illyrians, people of the Balkan region dedicated to the cultivation of the vine, began to be marketed throughout the Mediterranean by the ancient Phoenician visitors of our coasts.
This wine is a DOC one, a Gioia del Colle Primitivo, produced only in the Bari area. It’s perfect for pasta with Ragu’ and strong dishes based on meat, game, grilled fish and aged cheeses.

鸡肉栗子，米饭和南瓜 is a dish inspired by Chinese cuisine.
That afternoon we visited the International Alba White Truffle Fair, a long duration fair lasting just under 2 months in Alba, Piemonte, in the middle of autumn.
it’s full of local vendor and present some folkloristic events. People are numerous and parking is inversely proportional to this.
One week before we tried to collect some wild chestnut in Portofino, during a sunday morning but, at the end we discovered that they were almost all bad, with many insects inside.
Alba’s chestnuts were something safer but also very long to peal and cook. A good experience.

芒果奶昔和现剥石榴 is not a common milkshake. Mango is very expensive in Italy (about 4€ per piece). Notice the small cubes of this fruit floating in the glass. Perfect as a end dish

Il Pollo alla sorrentina (索伦托鸡) One of the most popular Campania dishes in Italy and abroad. In the area of Sorrento, it’s common to cook with tomato sauce and mozzarella, with pepper, salt and basil.

银耳莲子汤 – Tremella lotus seed soup is slightly sweetened and it’s fantastic served warm. Tremella is a kind of white mushroom that’s possible to find in the wooden trunks

The Master Kong’s instant noodles (康师傅: 泡面) are one of the most common substitute for the meal in China.
In my trip in 甘肃 in 18.8 it has been e good ally for those nights when we ended our visit late. Often with beer (see below)

Qingdao beer (青島扎啤 – Qingdao zhāpí) is one of the most famous beer in China. The first distillery was founded by german people, owner of that zone, at the beginning of XX century. As it often happens the name of a product is the same of the home town. In this case, Qingdao, is a big city in the east China with a unique climate and hosted the sailboat race for the 2008 olympics.

炕锅羊肉、蘑菇炒肉、红烧茄子 – Baked mutton, mushroom fried meat, braised eggplant. I ate this in a remote area in 甘肃, in 18.8. Actually the mutton (up) is my favourite chinese dish. A note for 外国人: let local people choose. Mushrooms at the bottom (my choice) were a DISASTER

牛油果和鸡蛋 – Avocado and egg: this is a quick and delicious receipt you can prepare if you find yourself in lack of time: the egg is boiled and the avocado is cut into cubes. The avocado tree, originating in central America, is famous for being toxic to many animals.

Lasagne – 烤宽面条: maybe the most famous italian dish, it took a lot of time for cooking (~4h). But at the end it was worth it. Memories from a sunny sunday in 18.6

Chicken wings – 鸡翅: some sunday brunches MUST be dirty. This is an example. As first you have to bread the wings and finally throw all into boiling oil for 5 minutes with cheerful flame. Good after running workout. Otherwise you’ll have a slight increase in weight

酥肉 – Crunchy meat: I love this dish. full of vegetables and breaded and fried pork meat. The consistency is soft and viscous. 谢谢铭！

芹菜炒香干、炸猪排配芦笋 – Celery stir-fried, fried pork chop with asparagus: this is a chinese way for cooking the pork steak: after breaded you can stir-fry in oil. The side dish is a mix of asparagus and celery. Notice the way of cutting.

Omelette with stracchino and cooked ham: one of my best receipts: easy and nutritious. 100g stracchino for 2 people

芝士猪排、香辣猪排. Cheese pork and spicy pork chop: a perfect union between oriental and western cuisine. The spicy things are weaken because of my naive palate

蔬菜肉丸 – Meat balls with vegetables: the meat balls are my specialty. When you add cheese (2 kinds in this case) and fry evrything, the result is guaranteed

Fast noodles with meatball and vegetables. All was freezed, perfect with little time

Burrata is tipical of Apulia: outer shell is solid mozzarella, while the inside contains stracciatella and cream. Only 250 kCal/100g. I expected worse. Soup with beef and eggs goes well with it

Chickpeas Pancakes: archaeological evidence suggests that pancakes were probably the earliest and most widespread cereal food eaten in prehistoric societies.

海带煎蛋卷: the white dots you can see on the surface are made by Sesame seeds. Kelp is full of micronutrients and it provides only 38 kCal/100g

杏仁鸡片: one of my best recipe. The vegetables in the side are chinese courgette. Almonds are expensive but tasty

鳕鱼: Directly from the North sea, together with 1 ton of salt. Trust me, you do not need to add.

米饭、蔬菜和虾: Somewhere under vegetables and many zests, there must be some shrimps… delicious. The rice is the jasmine variety, tipical of Thailand. The black seeds are Italian black rice, less glutinous than the other.

洋蓟,薄肉片和马铃薯: in rural France escalope originally referred to a dish with the same shape as a shelled nut.

深度油炸的蘸面的牛肉排: The first dish every man must know how to prepare.

神秘的事物: currently also the webmaster does not know what’s this.

粤菜饭: Canton, the third most inhabited Chinese city after Beijing and Shanghai, brought that dish into the world. If 14 millions people like, i can like it too

Mix

拉麵: one is red, the other no. In those parts they have the stomach covered with asbestos

Sometimes is not so important to have a plan for dinner, just improvisation

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